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Enforcement of regulatory guidelines associated with a drive mode of a vehicle

  • US 9,137,622 B2
  • Filed: 10/30/2012
  • Issued: 09/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of enforcing regulatory guidelines related to functionality of an electronic device associated with a vehicle when the vehicle is in a drive mode, the method comprising:

  • interfacing an application of an electronic device associated with a vehicle with an Application Programming Interface (API);

    generating a list of one or more approved functions of the electronic device with respect to when the vehicle is in a drive mode based on regulatory guidelines associated with operation of the electronic device; and

    generating a list of one or more unapproved functions of the electronic device with respect to when the vehicle is in the drive mode based on the regulatory guidelines;

    determining that the vehicle is in a drive mode; and

    selectively modifying, via the API, a functionality of the application of the electronic device in accordance with the regulatory guidelines based on the determination that the vehicle is in the drive mode and based on the list of one or more approved functions and the list of one or more unapproved functions, wherein selectively modifying the functionality of the application includes disabling functionality of the application that is included in the list of one or more unapproved functions while maintaining functionality of the application that is included in the list of one or more approved functions.

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